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Development Studies Conference in Liverpool Since 2007 my research group Global Energy Systems at Uppsala University has had a collaboration with the University of Liverpool Management School and Simon Snowden. When he asked me if I could come and participate in the School’s Development Studies Conference on 26 April the answer was, naturally, YES. Simon […]

I have now completed two extremely interesting days in London and I will begin my description with today’s important meetings in the government district of Whitehall. First I visited the Department of Energy that, as in Sweden, also covers environmental issues. My contact person in London, David Ratcliff from the Department of International Development, had […]

Day 2 of the international affairs meeting began, for my part, with delivery of my presentation on Peak Oil. I thought that it was received well and impacted on many who saw it. By now I don’t need to tell you what I spoke about but I tried to introduce the security theme into my […]

I have been encouraged to announce in advance when I am giving a presentation and here is the next one: On 20-21 April the Swedish Association of International Affairs will hold its yearly meeting in Lund (the programme can be seen at: http://ufsverige.org/konvent/) and on Saturday at 9.30 AM I will give an hour-long lecture […]

On average I receive one to two invitations per week to attend and make presentations at events in Sweden and elsewhere in the world. I usually politely decline most invitations but yesterday I did not hesitate for an instant to say yes. The World Bank had invited me to speak at the aviation industry’s largest […]

During 6 intensive days Michael, Olle and I have read and corrected 350 pages of the book that was provided to us as a 350 Mb PDF file! The file was so large because it includes 110 illustrations scanned with a resolution of 600 dpi. From the beginning we were agreed that the book would […]

On 1 October 2009 Global Energy Systems at Uppsala University published an article in the journal Energy Policy titled, Aviation fuel and future oil production scenarios” (E. Nygren, K. Aleklett, M. Höök). That report of our research was an expansion of Emma Nygrens Honours project. What we stated was that there was considerable evidence that […]

The past week has been very Peak Oil intensive. This included preparations for my 20 minute presentation at Rosenbad – which was all the time I was allowed. I have now watched the recording of the presentation and, as usual, I was a little too keen to get my message across. (You can view the […]

A common argument against Peak Oil is that it is not a concern because there is so much shale gas that can be produced. In the EU a bubble of expectations has been inflated around future production of shale gas in Poland. Now that bubble has burst. In an article from Reuters we can read […]